UNIMUS_E_005015

Title: A message stick held in the University Museum of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen, UM)

Description: Protocol text: Budstikke av brunt tre. Flat, avlang form, er bredest i den ene ende og smalner jevnt mot den andre. På den ene side innskåret et mønster av krysslinjer. På den andre er der innbrent 9 menneskefigurer. (se 5014)#L: 36,8 cm, St.Br.: 5,9 cm. Nord-Australia, Port Keats. English machine translation: Message stick of brown wood. Flat, oblong shape, is widest at one end and tapers evenly towards the other. On one side incised a pattern of cross lines. On the other, 9 human figures are burned in. (see 5014)#L: 36.8 cm, St.Width: 5.9 cm. Northern Australia, Port Keats.

Item type: message stick in a collection

State/Territory: NT

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Port Keats, Northern Australia

Dimension 1: 368mm Dimension 2: 59mm

Materials: wood

Source types: ethnographic collection, museum collection

Institution/Holder file: University Museum of Bergen object identifier: E_005015

Coordinates: 14°14'20.000400"S,129°31'18.998400"E  (-14.238889, 129.521944)

Media copyright: University Museum of Bergen

Notes on coordinates: Absolute coordinates for Wadeye (formally Port Keats), Northern Territory, per Google maps. Wikipedia: Wadeye, is a town in Australia's Northern Territory. It was formerly known (and is still often referred to) as Port Keats, a name originating from Port Keats Mission, which operated from 1935 (originally at a different location, known as Wertnek Nganayi) until 1978.

URL institution: https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/efb0f486-07fb-4df7-a0ba-876079723683

Notes: 20.11.23 NR: all info in English has been machine translated from Norwegian (Google translate)

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Data Entry: Nitzan Rotman